A legal defense claiming insanity “only works a very small percentage of the time,” a legal expert tells PEOPLE ...

Shaw told police he and five others went to Rossini conduct a shooting in retaliation for another shooting a year prior.

On Feb. 14, 2022, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf traveled to The Hague to present an Amicus (friend of the court) argument on the proper application of the ...

Liv Morgan‘s accused stalker is pleading insanity. PWInsider has confirmed that Shawn Chan, the man accused of stalking WWE ...

George L. Blau, Ph.D., J.D., Department of Psychology. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to George L. Blau, Professor of Psychology ...

At a recent court hearing, Timmy Kinner Jr.’s defense attorneys spoke publicly for the first time about their concerns for their client’s mental health. If Kinner had been arrested in almost any other ...

Lawyers of accused kidnapper Brendt Christensen filed a motion on Sept. 21 for more time to decide whether they will pursue a mental health defense during the upcoming trial for the alleged kidnap and ...

There are times when the insanity defense, with all the controversy that surrounds it, is in the news. This is one of those times: It is highly likely that James Holmes, who is facing 142 felony ...

At a recent court hearing, Timmy Kinner Jr.’s defense attorneys spoke publicly for the first time about their concerns for their client’s mental health. If Kinner had been arrested in almost any other ...

In the most recent "Room for Debate" feature in The New York Times, five scholars involved in law, psychiatry, and criminal justice discuss the current state of the insanity defense in light of the ...